J's Inkman Experiment thread

[Chashio]

Hahaha I've also thought of doing forest sections before, and was actually thinking about it again this afternoon. And something similar with ocean elements, too. Too funny

[J.Edward]

Chashio - here's the stuff I was talking about.
The first 2 are the local and regional sizes, relatively speaking. The regional really should be to a bit different scale.

And then an early test I did with them. It's a really rough degenerate forest but it conveys the concept.
I did it quite a while back. I've improved since. Two versions in progress.


And then some more map icons. Iso this time. I used some of these for the Northlands.
They worked out fairly well, though I had to downsize them.


And last, a little color scale for a topo map I am working on.
I have since changed the colors as I found a better, more harmonious color scheme.
Plus 2 samples of that topo.

Guess that makes up for not posting much in a while.

edit - apparently I took too long to post and you slipped past me.

[Abu Lafia]

Hey John, great you revived this wonderful thread! Thanks a lot for showing these fantastic "by-products" of your work, there's so much to learn from it.

[Chashio]

Very neat!

[Chick]

It's a really rough degenerate forest but it conveys the concept.

Man, I wish I could draw that rough and degenerately

[J.Edward]

Thanks Abu. I didn't think I would have such a big gap in time.
I thought I would be updating the thread every few weeks with new experiments.

I thought you might enjoy it Chashio. I had some other tree/forest things but i couldn't find them.
I'll have to keep looking.

chick - I just meant the dubious color and texturing.
It was a bit of a frustrated day when I was working on that forest. It wasn't coming out as I had planned.

[J.Edward]

Hahaha I've also thought of doing forest sections before, and was actually thinking about it again this afternoon. And something similar with ocean elements, too. Too funny

I'd be interested in what you were going to do for the ocean elements.
I am thinking but can't figure what you'd be doing. Waves... islands... ?
Did you do any of them?

[Chashio]

Stylized waves and sea creatures, mainly, but I haven't made any elements yet. Though I have done some rough degenerate sketches in varying degrees of interest and thought about it a lot... I'll probably get around to actually doing it sometime soon, haha.

[Sapiento]

Beautiful designs, John!

[ChickPea]

I absolutely love your iso icons! Too bad you're not eligible for the current Lite Challenge, because I think you would have walked it with these.

Fantastic and inspriational work, as always, J.

Can I ask what you font you use. Is it one of the Fell typefaces? You used the same one on some of your LotR maps, I believe.